Electronic payslips

LilElvis

stator wrote: »

Time to start learning how to use a computer.
If she ever has to claim benefits she will need to learn, so might as well start now.


Old people refusing to use a computer is no longer an option and the government doesn't want to waste money pandering to the few refuseniks still out there

They're also going to be a long time retired if they're only mid sixties now. Being able to use the internet and email will open up whole new worlds for them. A lot of bank savings accounts with the best rates are online only, discount vouchers for meals, days out etc, shopping deals.

My parents are 82 and 80 and set out this morning for five days in Paris with my eleven year old nephew. My Dad researched and booked it all online - flights, hotels, entry tickets, restaurants.

If your parents don't have a printer then buy them one - there's an HP 2622 all in one for £26.99 on Amazon.

Doshwaster

I suspect that in 5-10 years time there will be no paper payslips, council tax bills or gas/electricity bills. Everything will be online and you won't have a choice in the matter.

Marcon

KatrinaWaves wrote: »

You’ve already been told. They have made it available to her. She is choosing not to access it. I don’t know what ‘post’ you’ve read but the government guidelines don’t mention anything about ‘if the employee doesn’t have a computer then it hasn’t been given...’
https://www.gov.uk/payslips

I imagine OP got it from ACAS's website, which reads:

All employees must be provided with a wage slip. This is legally referred to as an itemised pay statement and it must be provided on or before each pay date. Pay statements may be provided electronically or as hard copy. However, if an employee is unable to access an electronic pay statement, a hard copy should be produced for them.


http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=5312

Neil_Jones

Key word: "should". Doesn't mean you have to. That probably applies if say you are new to a company and they haven't set you up with a means to get an electronic payslip yet - ie first month.

ACG

In a previous job I had, when I left I had something like 25 payslips in my draw that I had never opened. I had a rough idea of what money should go in to my account each month, so long as it looked right I was happy.

Could you make your mum a little user guide? Screenshots with labels?

Dox

Neil_Jones wrote: »

Key word: "should". Doesn't mean you have to.

I think you'll find that's exactly what it means ('should' means 'ought to'), but this thread seems to be the most enormous storm in a thimble. I've every sympathy for people who are diehard Luddites, but sooner or later they have to accept they are only making their own lives needlessly difficult.

General_Grant

Doshwaster wrote: »

I suspect that in 5-10 years time there will be no paper payslips, council tax bills or gas/electricity bills. Everything will be online and you won't have a choice in the matter.

And then they work out other ways of verifying our address for ID purposes - now you need a paper (sent through the post) copy of utility bills.

I know there will be other ways but now I have to ask my gas supplier to send a paper copy of the bill in the post. (I could ask banks too, of course.)

quantumlobster

But she doesn't know how to use a computer, or have access to a printer. She told her employer this and their response was to get family to show her how to use it. Surely if you don't know how to use a computer they have to provide a paper copy.

It's the tail-end of the second decade of the twenty-first century. For the past forty years, computers have been increasingly present in all types of workplaces, in one form or another. For the past twenty years they have been utterly pervasive.

We are long since past the point where if you don't know how to use a computer, it is no longer anyone's problem but your own.

molerat

I am the same age as those parents and I find it hard to believe that they have never been exposed to computers. I first came across computing in the workplace around 1975 and they have been common in almost every work scenario for many years. I worked in retail before retiring 10 years ago and we were on our third generation system when I left.

OP, you need to drag them into the 20th century and they may then be able to make their own way into the 21st

Doshwaster

General_Grant wrote: »

And then they work out other ways of verifying our address for ID purposes - now you need a paper (sent through the post) copy of utility bills.

I know there will be other ways but now I have to ask my gas supplier to send a paper copy of the bill in the post. (I could ask banks too, of course.)

I can't remember having a problem recently with this. Most electronic bills come as a PDF which when printed out are identical to the ones received in the post so should just be as acceptable.